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David, an independent photographer, and Katia, an unemployed woman, leave L.A. to explore the desert terrain in search of a natural set for a magazine photo-shoot. The attractive couple finds a motel at 29 Palms, and subsequently spends their days on their four-wheelers, discovering the Joshua Tree Desert. Driving around with utter freedom, they lose themselves on nameless roads and trails. Frantically making love all the time and most everywhere, they regularly fight. Inevitably, David and Katia kiss and make up though, understanding the eruption petty fights that can occur within ordinary daily life. However, soon their relationship begins to collapse, and elements of menace and fear begin to plague their time spent together, as something horrible and hideous descends upon them.

In Twentynine Palms, writer and director Bruno Dumont takes his cultural revenge on the United States, attacking countless American stereotypes and in the process reinforcing an equal number of cliches about arrogant French auteurs.

Audience Reviews for Twentynine Palms

It's hard to imagine anything less enjoyable than Twentynine Palms, California, but the movie achieves all that and less.

Dwayne Roberts

½

I'm not sure what to take from this. I take this to be what The Brown Bunny is, which I have not seen. It is a lot of desert driving, arguing and sex. The scenes are described as "sensually realistic", and that is pretty accurate, but it doesn?t tell you that the aimless desert driving and hiking is sedately realistic. And there is a lot of it. A lot. That is, until the big thing happens. And what the hell was that Is that supposed to be what is out there in the beauty of the Joshua Tree Park?
I know there is more to the story, or that there is supposed to be, but it gets lost in almost 90 minutes of mind-numbingly boring bickering and sex. You feel no attachment to these people. The only thing that saves this movie from being worthless are the great performances by the two people. Everything except the sex scenes are touching and bearable. The howling, not so much.

Lee B

Provocative but not relentless.I remote myself in a vast plain,mingled with the sky's peacefulness.I wouldn't wish though to have such temper aside of me.Palms as a fake plastic manuscript of thoughts and determinations.The couple is disjointed and yet so loving you feel their inner loss towards the end.Dumont shows how much a film can present without shaky camera movement and a classic film-making persona.The outcast figure.

Dimitris Springer

Super Reviewer

½

[font=Century Gothic]In Bruno Dumont's "Twentynine Palms", Dave is a photographer scouting locations in the California desert along with his French girlfriend, Katia. They are your typical couple, alternating bouts of lovemaking and arguing. But the real star of this movie is the beautifully desolate landscape that occasionally looks like it could be the surface of another planet. [/font][font=Century Gothic]"Twentynine Palms" is definitely an unsettling provocation that stays with you.[/font]